Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey write by Mark Dery. This book was released on 2018-11-01. Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. ’A genius book about a bookish genius’ Daniel Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events
Born to Be Posthumous
Born to Be Posthumous - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Born to Be Posthumous write by Mark Dery. This book was released on 2018-11-06. Born to Be Posthumous available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and was known -- in the late 1940s, no less -- to traipse around in full-length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard? An eccentric, a gregarious recluse, an enigmatic auteur of whimsically morbid masterpieces, yes -- but who was the real Edward Gorey behind the Oscar Wildean pose? He published over a hundred books and illustrated works by Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Edward Lear, John Updike, Charles Dickens, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Bram Stoker, Gilbert & Sullivan, and others. At the same time, he was a deeply complicated and conflicted individual, a man whose art reflected his obsessions with the disquieting and the darkly hilarious. Based on newly uncovered correspondence and interviews with personalities as diverse as John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Lemony Snicket, Neil Gaiman, and Anna Sui, Born to Be Posthumous draws back the curtain on the eccentric genius and mysterious life of Edward Gorey.
John the Posthumous
John the Posthumous - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John the Posthumous write by Jason Schwartz. This book was released on 2013-08-01. John the Posthumous available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John the Posthumous exists in between fiction and poetry, elegy and history: a kind of novella in objects, it is an anatomy of marriage and adultery, an interlocking set of fictional histories, and the staccato telling of a murder, perhaps two murders. This is a literary album of a pre-Internet world, focused on physical elements — all of which are tools for either violence or sustenance. Knives, old iron gates, antique houses in flames; Biblical citations, blood and a history of the American bed: the unsettling, half-perceived images, and their precise but alien manipulation by a master of the language will stay with readers. Its themes are familiar — violence, betrayal, failure — its depiction of these utterly original and hauntingly beautiful.
The World of Edward Gorey
The World of Edward Gorey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The World of Edward Gorey write by Clifford Ross. This book was released on 1996-09. The World of Edward Gorey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A look at the artist and his work, including his illustrations for T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and the animated credits for the Mystery! series on public television.
Posthumous Papers of a Living Author
Posthumous Papers of a Living Author - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Posthumous Papers of a Living Author write by Robert Musil. This book was released on 2012-04-21. Posthumous Papers of a Living Author available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of exploratory pieces, short stories, and reflections was originally published in Zurich in 1936. It was the last volume Robert Musil published before his sudden death in 1942. Musil had begun to fathom the impossibility of com- pleting his monumental masterpiece The Man Without Qualities and this volume reveals a radically different aspect of his work. Musil observes a fly’s tragic struggle with flypaper, the laughter of a horse; he peers through microscopes and telescopes, dissecting both large and small. Musil’s quest for the essential is a voyage into the minute.
